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by finack 754 days ago
None of these things are in scope for a program that is supposed to browse the web (by fetching web pages and rendering them).
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amluto 753 days ago
How is securely connecting to a device that isn’t, itself, connected to the cloud, fetching a webpage from it, and rendering it out of scope for a web browser? Certainly URLs like http://192.168.1.1 have been in scope for decades — why can’t a web browser figure out how to support that use case well?
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finack 753 days ago
Web browsers can already do that. I'm not sure what else is desired beyond what they already do.
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stqism 752 days ago
It sounds dumb, but honestly modern browsers feel way closer to the JRE than they did things designed to fetch and render sites.
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